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"Eros" by George Oppen, quoted in Chris Nealon's 2021 essay, "George Oppen and the Future"
I wrote about Trump’s ideological deportation policies and their implications for free speech, including on university campuses. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
If you want to explore whether a company you buy from works with DHS/ICE, there is a real simple website to do that! www.usaspending.gov/search
SECOND CLASS ANGEL there’s a part of heaven reserved for my kind. the sun don’t grow there. the money don’t shine it’s not about wings altho chicken today feathers tomorrow might be called a way of being periodically there’s a breakthru: one of us gets over polishing halos evidentially status has endless ramifications like an infinite pecking order which suggests the light one moves toward ascending in death is merely the non-reflective neon of God’s corporate boardroom
the money don’t shine
Wanda Coleman
Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS.
ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.
This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
"We are not, and we must not become, a nation that imprisons and deports people because we are afraid of what they have to tell us."
— Judge William Young
#AAUPvRubio
@mesa1966.bsky.social
"Talking straight here, the big problem in this case is that the cabinet secretaries and, ostensibly, the president of the United States are not honoring the First Amendment,” Judge William G. Young said.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
Rumeya Ozturk has resumed her studies and Betar, the witch hunt org who pursued Palestinian protesters, has dissolved. As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says, I regret to inform you that we are going to win.
There is a substantial connection between the affective + social infrastructure you build in a good classroom and the counter-hegemonic sociality of academic union organizing, and someday I'd like to write about that. Venmo in bio
Rick's Christmas episode is truly a joy
Excited to be included in this superb volume, edited by Lizzy Lerud and @carolinegelmi.bsky.social !
Holy cow! This is a legal smack down of the Trump regime's attack on UC system!
Higher ed workers say: Condemn the Compact!
Here is CSU-AAUP, AFT Local 6745 member A. Fiona Pearson, professor of sociology at Central Connecticut State University, calling for us to unite in the face of these attacks on higher ed!
@aftct.bsky.social
This Friday, student leaders are walking out across the country...Find an action near you, find your friends, and go to it!
actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
(extremely in my 40s voice) Some nice estate sales today!
Happening now: @uconnaaup.bsky.social members & fellow colleagues in #UConnLabor stand together to shift the balance of power in current #union contract negotiations. #TheCTDifference @aft.org @aftacademics.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social
Brown said no to the Compact! But they should not impose finance management-driven austerity at the same time. Brown AAUP with an excellent analysis here: www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
My book Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public is available for pre-order! I am excited to share it with the world. Find it on the Columbia UP site with endorsements from Anthony Reed, Leigh Claire La Berge, Sarah Dowling and Craig Dworkin cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...
The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a source
Over 100 Brown U students & 20 faculty members gathered outside
the campus today to demand that the university reject Trump’s loyalty oath compact. Professors & students taped their mouths shut to symbolize the compact’s threat to free speech, #academicfreedom & diversity of thought.
#DefendHigherEd
Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.
Sign-on letter to oppose Trump's (extortion) "compact" for higher ed institutions. actionnetwork.org/petitions/un...
Ahead of the case caption, a handwritten note: "Trump has pardons and tanks . . . . what do you have?" Judge Young's reply: "Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous, Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, We the People of the United States –- you and me -- have our magnificent Constitution. Here’s how that works out in a specific case –- "
AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This book...
